Wednesday, December 31
Well, 1997 is pretty much over. It's been an interesting year, to say the least. (And the least
is all I plan to say about it.) Happy New Year, everyone.

I did a mIRCX search for
"whiteboard&quot last night, and came up with MarkP's Shared
Whiteboard 1.0. It's a well written script, and it makes mine look rather lame by comparison.
Rather than trying to bring Scribble up to this level of quality, I think I'll just give up now.
So unless I find any huge bugs or gaping flaws that need fixed, here's the final version of
mIRC Scribble.

On a related note, check out MarkP's
page. It's mostly focused on IRC, and a there's a good collection of mIRC scripts.

I added a counter to this page. Should be good for a quick laugh, anyway. (It seems to be a
good script, if you'd like your own copy it can be found
here.)

Monday, December 29
The new issue of Dank &amp
Scud, A Void At All Costs is out. This is the best issue yet; it looks good, it's
actually long enough this time, and the writing is great. Even if you don't care about Quake in
the least, check this out.

I decided to make use of some of mIRC's new
features, and wrote a whiteboard script. I still need to add a few features, and I'll probably get
it done in the next few days. Anyway, here's mIRC Scribble 1.0. Enjoy.
Or something.

mIRC v5.3 has been released! It now supports
direct socket connections, which means you can easily write a script to check your e-mail, open a
telnet session, or maybe even browse the web. Other nifty new features include custom graphical
windows, with the ability to draw graphics and load bitmaps(!), and the option to pop up a color
list whenever Ctrl-K is typed.

Saturday, December 6
Quake 2 is due to be released on December 9. I'm planning on spending that day feeling sorry
for myself and my obsolete computer.

Speaking of obsolete, the YPOD Doom TC (a TC of Quake to Doom) has been released at
Moxill Interactive. I haven't had
time to download it yet (13 megs or so), but reviews have been very favorable, and the
screenshots are impressive.

Another cool new Quake TC is Target
Quake, which converts Quake into a side scroller. This isn't really a new idea, as it's
already been done by Giana
Quake and a few others, but this is the most playable so far.